Aflame: The Flash (1)

10.2

10.2 in the middle

—REWRITTEN—

"Guys, you have to come look at this," Cisco says and look I walk over to the others, standing next to Barry. "When the heat gun was fired it increased the surrounding temperature of the air dramatically. Sort of like an extreme heat wave. Heatwave."

"Stop doing that," Dad says.

"Okay," Cisco responds. "I measured the temperature output of both the cold and the heat guns, right? And while the cold gun achieves absolute zero, the heat gun successfully reaches absolute hot, or the hottest temperature an object can reach."

"Planck temperature," I say.

Cisco nods and Dad says, "So potentially, the two guns could cancel each other out."

"Yeah, but to do that, you'd have to make them cross stream," Cisco says.

"You mean like Ghostbusters?" Barry asks.

"That film is surprisingly scientifically accurate," Cisco says.

I then feel a hand on my arm and I immediately grab the owners arm and flip the person around. They land on the floor with a thud. I look down to see Barry on the ground, groaning. "Remind me not to do that again," He says getting up slowly.

I turn to Barry. "I'm sorry. After the whole Snart thing, I'm just on alert," I say.

"More so than usual," Cisco adds as I roll my eyes. "I'm sorry but it still hurts where punched me... and kicked me... and hit me."

Barry's eyes widened. "He woke me up from my nap! I live alone so I think you know why I thought he was trying to kill me!" I defend.

Barry opens his mouth to answer as his phone rings. He excuses himself to talk as I turn to Cisco. "Where's Cait?" I ask.

"I don't know. She hasn't called in a while," Cisco says. Barry then runs out of S.T.A.R. Labs.

"You don't think Snart..." I trail off.

"No. At least I hope not," Cisco says. "I'll call her." He then tries calling her. "She's not picking up."

Just then, on every tv station, we see Snart. "Greetings, citizens of Central City. I'm Leonard Snart, but you can call me cold I'm gonna make this very simple for everyone. That Red Streak you've been hearing whispers about, and his partner. Flicker. By the way, that's not her real name. These heroes, the ones mysteriously saving people these past few months, well surprise. They're real. Calls themselves, the Flash and the Phoenix. -Porter and Main. Tonight. Sundown. Come out, Come out, wherever you are Flash and Phoenix. Show the whole world you're real. Or this women dies," Snart says as we see Cait held by a man I identified as Mick Rory.

"No!" She yells. "Don't come for me, stay away!" Snart then ends the feed.

Me, Cisco and Dad share a look. I then ask, "People call me Flicker?"

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"Barry you ready?" I ask, as I zip up my suit.

"Yeah," He says as he speeds into his suit. "Be careful," He says. I nod and then we both get to Porter and Main. Me and Barry stop in front of the officers.

"The Scarlett speedster and his one woman army," Snart says walking up to us. "Any preference on how you'd like to die?" The flame or the frost?" We don't answer as we walk towards them. "Not in the mood for chitchat. Gotcha. Ready when you are." They then hold up they're guns.

"You get Snart, I'll get Mick," I whisper into the comms.

He nods. "We meet in the middle," He says as we start.

He runs away in a circle an then at them as they both stagger back. Snart then focuses on Barry as I turn my attention to Mick.

Time to fight fire with fire.

I kick him in his back making him stagger forwards. He turns around and uses his heatgun on me. I immediately hold out my hand and use my pyrokinesis to manipulate his flame, freezing it in the air. I smirk and then push my hands forwards, sending the flame back on him. He falls back, the flame touching his skin, but he doesn't seem to be affected. I then hear Barry scream as my head snaps in his direction.

"Barry! You okay?" I ask.

"I'm fine. Focus on Mick not me," He says. That's harder than you think.

I turn back to Mick as he is now up on his feet with the heat gun pointed at me. He starts it as I teleport away, but not in time. I get hit by the flame, my body absorbing too much of it. I groan in pain, falling down and soon Barry is on the floor right next to me. He got hit by the cold gun. We groan out in pain as they walk up closer to us. They start they're guns and we almost get hit, but we don't. Eddie is in front of us within seconds, his shield protecting us. "Hold on!" He says. "Go, go go!" I teleport Eddie away from there and then teleport next to Barry.

We face Snart and Mick separating in front of us. "I can't do this. Speed isn't getting it done," Barry says into the comms.

"You're right. Maybe the way to doing this isn't by going faster-" Dad says.

"It's going slower," Barry finishes. He then takes a step forward as I grab his arm. He turns back to me.

"If you're gonna go slower, let me put my force field around you," I say. "I don't want you to get hurt."

He nods as I raise my hands and project a a thin field of blue around him. He runs forwards slowly as Snart says, "It was nice playin' with ya, kid."

They then both aim at Barry and fire. Barry slows down even more as my force field starts to get harder to keep up. My push my hands more to keep it up, but I see a crack where the cold gun was pointing. Suddenly, I look at my arms and fire starts traveling around them towards my hands. I use the fire and push it towards my force field. It travels into my force field, mending it and making it stronger. Barry slowly keeps walking forwards. The streams eventually cross, creating a small explosion, sending them both flying back. My force field also collapses, due to the explosion as I am also sent flying back. I fall on the ground with a thud. I groan on the floor. I slowly get up as I see Barry run to me. "We did it!" He exclaims.

"We did," I smile. "Now, Let's get outta here."